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The short journey to Africa -- over a calm and perfect sea, whose / waters were voices at her port to solace her, and where the stars / alone glowed down like friends upon her and seemed to understand -- was / a torture to Julia Redmond. To herself she called her aunt cruel, / over and over again, and felt a prisoner, a caged creature.
Tremont found her charming, though in this role of Florence / Nightingale, she puzzled and perplexed him. She was nevertheless / adorable. The young man had the good sense to make a discreet / courtship and understood she would not be easily won. Until they / reached Algiers, indeed, until the night before they disembarked, he / had not said one word to her which might not have been shared by her / aunt. In accordance with the French custom, they never were alone. / The marquise shut her eyes and napped considerably and gave them / every opportunity she could, but she was always present.